Debt Rattle June 22 2026
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Vincent van Gogh Gypsy Camp near Arles 1888 • Trump Threatens US Will Charge Toll Fees In Strait of Hormuz (JTN) • Trump Reminds Iran of ‘Harder’ Mili
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 22 2026]“’Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister
Oh good! Two more countries we need to genocide to make sure “It never happens again.” We can add them to the list of 12 you’ve already started.
“Iran’s Araghchi Says Talks Delivered “Major Progress” To End Lebanon War, Will Continue For Rest Of Week
In a shocking turn, IRGC appears to say no, trying to extort ships. Wait – Iran is not one country and both the IRGC and Civilian sides are trying to run it? And differently? And the IRGC wants everyone dead? Hmmm, I seem to remember somebody saying that and everyone ignoring it.
“Russian Drone Strike Sets Turkish Cargo Ship Ablaze In Black Sea, Killing One
Speaking of randomly attacking ships. But with long evidence, we can bet “You know what you did.” They’re probably running critical arms to Ukraine.
“Israelis Are Livid Over Trump Ending War, Overwhelmingly Believe Iran Won: Poll
Ah. So that’s why Fox news, Varufakis, everyone believes Iran won: they’re all Israelis. Actually that’s near 1:1.
This is precisely the narrative “Trump works for/fought the war for Israel alone, fatally wounding himself in their service alone.” Which is the #OPPOSITE of what happened. As Rubio said, “They made us attack Iran (then)” but now they’re Claiming Trump is completely NOT in the service of Israel, isn’t obedient, and defied them completely, doing what he wanted instead.
WHO is saying that, specifically? Well Tucker Carlson and that’s a super-headline name. We saw the buildup to try to split MAGA more than a year ago. But ALSO THE ADDELSONS. They did front page on how Trump is the worst, double-crossed them, could have been the greatest President (By obeying Israel and genociding everyone) but now he’s the worst and may become their arch-enemy if he’s not careful. No joke.
So THAT is the kind of puppet Trump is for Israel, turns out. Who could have seen this coming?? Trump is always so compliant and does whatever you tell him all the time. The minority on this said have been saying this for all 2025-6, but even back to 2016 as well.
“Syria ‘Unwilling, Unprepared’ To Attack Lebanon & Deal With Hezbollah Despite US Pressure
We’d have to know who this guy is and why he exists. And why the entire Syrian army was put on stand down to let the nation fall. Guys: we don’t know this at all. No one even has any theories. Yes, he’s a puppet of “The West”, ISIS installed by Atlantic secret services, but WHO and Why? Nothing. Does this give us a clue? Not really. But it would appear he’d at least phrase this differently if he was a U.S. puppet. He’s not. We may have a hand, but he’s not our boy alone.
Today:
“The System Is Reorganizing To Stop Vance”We know Vance is a captured bad guy because the Derp State is trying to fight him now.
They do this by saying he works for Theil and the PayPal Mafia. So exactly as Trump works for Epstein and the Deep State, which is why he arrested Epstein, released the records, and the Deep State has him shot every week. …Yes, it was only last week people! They were trying again. And these are the public assassination attempts they admit.
So look forward to how a man with a Hindu immigrant wife is a racist, that a kid from White Trash Kentucky is an oligarch, and how the more the Corleones try to shoot you, the more it means you work for them. …And where everyone will believe these things.
Yes, Vance is totally Deep State, works for Pompeo and Soros and that’s why Trump immediately chose him after Butler as his personal bullet-proof vest. Yup. Totes. #Logic.
“for services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle East”
He’s mentioned this a few times now, that our actions in the Gulf are at the behest of the Gulf Nations. This appears to be true. And Not Israel, which is now totally pissed off.
Donald Trump: Puppet of Islam. No? Why not? Just as reasonable. He was racist hateful anti Muslim by closing entry to (A very, very few) Muslim states in 2020, and that means he’s their puppet, right? Same logic and evidence as he works for Israel.
“Trump Reminds Iran of ‘Harder’ Military Options On Table (ZH)
That’s a good way to put it and probably necessary. If the dimwits worldwide but especially Europe claim Iran won, Iran will lean into this, understandably…. And get themselves all bombed to s—t again, while Europe laughs with delight, precious little-girl hands clapping. Other than that, this back-and-forth and over Lebanon is the most predictable thing ever. And this, and the running of the clock was always the problem. But everything seems far ahead of schedule, and yes, I am very surprised by this. War is a s—t show, or supposed to be, so anything going well is suspicious.
“will Trump be willing to risk enduring the political and economic fallout?”
What fallout? They keep saying this, so maybe the moron experts on TV from Harvard who’ve been wrong about everything since Grade School and had no idea that a “Supreme Court” and “Districting” exists might be right, but I don’t see that at my level. Like usual, they are utterly deranged, so whatever new reason to HATE, hate Orange Man, they pick up the banner without any reflection on true or false and are certain the rest of the country has too.
What fallout? That Don won 114 of 114 endorsements, they won the midterms last month on the restoration of law, gas is plummeting, and he can claim the war is marvelously won? While the very slow start to the economy and manufacturing finally kicks in? And then I dunno, gives a $5k tax credit to offset our oil inconvenience or something? Yes, that’s buying votes, except we’ve done it many times now, and have the money to.
So this is the “Fallout” of which they speak? They’ll be sooper pissed off there is no immigration, residents are returning and there’s great jobs for Black people? Oh noes.
“We Just Say Things”. Not even checking if they’re true or false. I want it to be true, so I write it on this spreadsheet, just like I do in the office. No. That is almost entirely untrue. I can’t even point at the fallout I think you mean, which is why you don’t specifically say and measure it. Guilt – by association — Rumor, Innudendo. You’re a fag. We need to bring back duels.
“Spent his whole life dreaming of the job. and POOF!
• Keir Starmer Moments Away from Resignation (CTH)Yup and almost more evil than when he was in office. The entire strategy team was sitting around Downing, and were like, “Is there any POSSIBLE further evil we can commit on the British people here?” One snaps his fingers and says, “Yes! I’ve got it!” Much back-slapping all around. An additional year or two of raping rented white 12-year olds from their proxies.
I think like water they will flow around him anyway, but the disruption WILL slow down the restoration, and more people will be harmed by the additional mischief.
“President Donald Trump apparently confirmed the rumors that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is resigning, …Downing Street has not confirmed Starmer’s resignation as of Sunday morning, indicating to the BBC that the prime minister might try to hold onto his office after all.
Both. Neither. Aii. Donald is right of course – why on God’s earth people would doubt him when he’s reading the most secret dossiers with the NSA inside every damn router on earth, I have literally no idea. He would take a ding if he were wrong, but never gets a credit when he’s correct. How did we know? It would be a miracle if the PM’s office weren’t directly bugged by us. Starmer DID resign of course, however, also not resign since he’s staying to September as a lame duck, finally able to use that death-status as a way to force-feed the worst plans Britain has ever seen, the ones Orwell warned about.
Oh and kill, imprison as many Brits as he can. Just as Big Brother, O’Brien said, and as O’Brien says The Grinding, the Killing, the Torture, the Hate is the POINT. That’s not in furtherance of a goal, it IS the goal itself. POWER.
“Listen to Rupert Lowe read out just 5 minutes of survivors testimony from the rape gang inquiry.”
Many hardened people and reporters said they got to about Page 4 and put it away, unable to stand it.
Now that Raul is listing a few details, from a zoomed-out view, can you see why mentioning it is on my mind? Maybe by appalling people adequately it can stop? The right people are denying right now, predominantly white liberal women. I mean you’d expect Starmer to, he was the one overseeing and running it.
“perpetrated against British children by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men.”
No. No, no and a thousand times No. It was perpetrated by the GOVERNMENT, as always. They’ve known, had a scandal on this TWENTY YEARS ago, back when it was small. They knew and didn’t stop it BECAUSE THEY LIKED IT. They covered it up all this time, case after case, with great and active vigor, coming up to every policeman, over and over, one by one. Each and every time it appeared, they repressed and approved it again.
Note they arrested fathers, brothers, MINISTERS OF PARLIAMENT (That’s how Lowe started), drummed out thousands of police, social workers, other bureaucrats who made noise.
…IT WAS NEVER ANY PAKISTANI THAT DID THAT. The government could have stopped it by lifting a pinky finger of the combined state against them. They refused. They LIKE it. They WANTED it, or they else would be mad. Right? They’re not mad. They’re mad you’re stopping it.
So don’t blame any Pakistanis. There are criminals in every ethnicity, but only the government can let them not run through the system in a normal, regular way.
“• Starmer Accused Of Staging Russian Ship Raid To Boost Poll Numbers (Jung)
When are they going to stop playing pattycake? No, it’s not “For politics”, same as they claim Trump was hiding in Iran from the Epstein files he himself of all Presidents released.
STARMER IS SPECIFICALLY STARTING WWIII.
He wants to force Russia to nuke HMNB Clyde (Faslane). Only something so large and tip the U.S. back into fighting on behalf of NATO, attacking Russia while Europe laughs and lounges on the seaside. That’s also why England mass-drones Moscow, and the other, refineries deep 1500 inside Russia, only possible with UK tech and “Q’s” James Bond gear.
If you listen to recent interviews, it IS getting under their skin and they ARE talking about nuking Europe. And no surprise!
“This is the third step in what I believe is a transparent operation conducted by
Ukraine andthe U.K (NATO group).Note: IF this happens, Ukraine is de-facto NATO. Right? They are protected by NATO, with NATO arms factories there, being bombed by Ruskkies! How dare they! …See the point, as Europe was unable to get even Biden to sign on, much less Trump? Back-door their way in. That is to say, to -ss f–k us. No thank you, I don’t swing that way.
SAVE Act is very important for itself, of course, but more and the longer it goes on (like Epstein in the headlines) the more the American People realize everyone in Congress is an appalling traitor. And yes, your Congressman too. Good. About f’n time. JHC I thought it would never happen. When was Iran-Contra? The Church Committee?
“Warsh’s attack on the institution itself. He announced five separate task forces to review how the Federal Reserve”
Warsh is there to reform or disband the Fed. Why? The Fed was a mole-installation of cartel banks from Europe. But we’ve beaten them and US Banks own it now. Colonially extract yourself? That makes no sense. So it may be rolled into Treasury with residual function as we return to The American System.
And again: I thought Warsh existed to be a Trump puppet and lower rates, what gives?
EU Immigration: Yup, her nagging, scolding, and punishing of the most petty offenses has made her great allies so far in life. Why stop now?
“return hubs, calling the approach ineffective and contrary to French principles.”
Hey, uh, isn’t “French Principles” have something to do with “The French People”?
And here is the key: they see everything as interchangeable economic units. There is no humanity, no humans at all.
Everything that even MAKES one human, is erased.
Howso? The goal is right there at the end of 1984: Winston is no longer able to feel even love, even hate, anything at all, for Julia or anyone. All actions, even questions, erased. Only robotic obedience, as a Hive mind. And as O’Brien says, even THAT is not enough. They must be unhappy as well, as only then can utter subservience be proven and known.
He will not be satisfied until there is no life in France. French of course, but otherwise as well, later on the migrants as well, then all humanity. This is what their transhumanism and Elon’s robots are for.
“‘What happened to multiculturalism preached by European globalists?”
You misunderstand. They mean “Every culture but yours.” And that’s, “Wherever on earth you are.” You think they’re protecting Sri Lankan culture? Or Indonesian? Hahahahahaha! Sucker.
(or Appalachian. Or Western ranchers. Or Massachusett’s small-farms. Or fishermen. Or Cuban, Venezuelan, or Russian. No. The culture of a hive, all action within it as one, anti-diverse until the world is a desert.)
Side of the Angels I say! Everyone can be like the Morningstar. …Or die resisting his ego.
“5 million humanoid robots working 24/7 can build Manhattan in ~6 months.”
No they can’t, that takes intelligence. They will f—k it up beyond all recognition. Have you never used a computer before?
“10 times Economy in 10 years”
What does that mean? GDP, economic units? From which human life is even more of a living hell? All the new power goes to robots, displacing all life? We cut the last forests to make room for power plants and data centers no one wants or needs, making, as it does, all human and even all organic life of every known species, a hellish extinction? THAT is what you mean by “10x larger in 10 years”? Probably. He’s said not a word on why this is better or anyone would want it. I don’t. I think you should be snatched and institutionalized for suggesting it.
“Alastair Crooke: An Irreversible Blow to Israel”
One would hope so, but how? Israel is right there, not all that different from before, from last year. But now they’re gone by Thursday?
They identify as a group.
If you don’t recognize it- the gripes!
But they’ll knock anyone for a loop,
When somebody stereotypes.THEATER
Peace
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War
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carrot-and-stick
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enduring political and economic fallout
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The gap between rhetoric and reality on migration has never been wider.
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Breaking news for 21.6.2026
All of the breaking news that have unfolded over Sunday.
POLITICAL SONAR
Jun 21, 2026
https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/breaking-news-for-2162026The soul-sucking nature is part of the plan.
You’ve outsourced your essence. You may as well die
And be born once again as the New Order Man:
A conduit selling the god named AI.And it’s all just a mirror reflecting
A homogenous realm of selecting.THEATER
…..In Jerusalem, officials are counting on another opportunity to deal with Iran after the U.S. midterm elections and after fuel prices fall. …
Remove One Scumbag …
… get another to replace him. It doesn’t matter who the UK’s PM is–it is going to be a pompous corrupt hack with delusions of grandeur.Centuries of incest, physical and mental degeneracy and of negative selection doomed Britain and it cannot be saved unless the process of wholesale defenestration begins. In the end, UK’s influence on world affairs is grossly exaggerated, to the point of a grotesque fantasy, supported to a large extent by media exploitation of England’s massive contribution to human civilization in XVIII-XIX centuries in industry, arts and science. So, let UK stew in its own misery and die out together with its pompous and corrupt “elites”.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/06/remove-one-scumbag.html
Architecture of endurance: Understanding Iran’s defense doctrine beyond Western spin
Monday, 22 June 2026 9:41 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 22 June 2026 9:41 AM ]By Iqbal Jassat
Led by the Israeli regime and Zionist allied “think tanks”, Western political leaders, military planners and media institutions have portrayed Iran as an “irrational actor” driven by ideological extremism and regional aggression.
This deceptive narrative has served a strategic purpose by obscuring a more uncomfortable reality: Iran’s military doctrine is not built around conquest, expansion or conventional battlefield dominance, but around survival.
Absent from much of the public discourse is the fact that Iran’s entire military structure evolved in response to isolation, sanctions, encirclement and repeated threats of “regime change.”
Following Iran’s historic 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew a Western puppet and was followed by a devastating Western-imposed war by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime on Iran, Tehran concluded that it could not compete directly with the overwhelming technological superiority of the US and its allies.
The result was the development of a defense doctrine focused on deterrence, endurance and resilience rather than conventional superiority.
What is routinely presented as aggression is often the visible component of a much broader strategy designed to impose costs on any adversary contemplating aggression. The objective is to make any act of military aggression so costly, prolonged and disruptive that political leaders in Washington or Tel Aviv reconsider the value of war itself.
While Western militaries often seek rapid, decisive victories through technological superiority and overwhelming firepower, Iran seeks to stretch war over time. The longer a war continues, the greater the financial, political and social burden imposed on its adversaries. Iranian strategists calculate that democratic societies have lower tolerance for prolonged military and economic pain than Iran itself does.
This explains its enormous investment in missiles and drones.
The logic is simple. A relatively inexpensive drone can force an adversary to expend interceptor missiles costing many times more. The objective is not merely military damage but economic exhaustion. Every interception becomes a financial drain.
Every wave of drones becomes a test of sustainability. The battlefield extends beyond military installations into budgets, supply chains and political patience.
This approach exposes a vulnerability rarely discussed in mainstream coverage. Advanced military technology often comes with extraordinary costs. Iran’s strategy seeks to weaponise that imbalance.
Another element routinely omitted from public discussion is the extent to which Iran has redefined the battlefield itself.
Through support for Hezbollah, Iraqi Resistance, the Ansarullah and Palestinian liberation movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Iran has developed what it describes as an Axis of Resistance. Western governments portray these relationships exclusively through the language of proxy warfare. Yet from Tehran’s perspective, they represent strategic depth.
A war against the Islamic Republic of Iran can thus no longer be confined to a single battlefield. It immediately and automatically becomes regional.
The beneficiaries of narratives that reduce these dynamics to simple “terrorism frameworks” are clear. Such framing eliminates historical context and removes discussion of broader regional security calculations. It simplifies a sophisticated deterrence architecture into a morality play that is easier to sell to domestic audiences.
Perhaps the most significant and least understood component of Iran’s doctrine is its decentralized command structure.
For decades, Western and Israeli military planning has relied heavily on leadership decapitation strategies. The assumption is straightforward. Removing key commanders and military organizations makes them ineffective.
Iran spent years studying the failures of Saddam Hussein’s military during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and concluded that centralized command structures were fatal vulnerabilities. The result was the development of the mosaic defense doctrine.
Under this model, Iran is divided into multiple semi-autonomous regional commands capable of functioning independently if central leadership is affected. Each command possesses local intelligence capabilities, logistics infrastructure and operational authority. If communications collapse or senior leaders are martyred, regional commanders are expected to continue fighting under preplanned directives.
If one commander is martyred, another immediately assumes responsibility. The objective is simple: ensure that the military never stops functioning.
Iran’s military doctrine also treats geography as an active component of warfare.
Its mountainous terrain provides natural defensive barriers. Vast distances complicate any ground invasion. Underground missile complexes carved deep into mountains preserve critical assets from aerial bombardment.
Most importantly, the Strait of Hormuz gives it leverage over one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints.
Western reporting frequently focuses on missile inventories and military hardware while giving far less attention to the strategic reality that geography itself remains one of Iran’s most powerful deterrents.
The ability to influence global energy markets transforms regional war into an international economic crisis. This expands the political costs of war far beyond the immediate participants.
Then comes the element or information dissemination. Iran knows the importance of correct messaging. The United States, NATO members, Israel, Russia and China all engage in similar information operations. Yet mainstream discussion often presents Western strategic communication as public diplomacy while framing Iranian messaging as propaganda.
The most important lesson from Iran’s military doctrine is that it was never designed to produce traditional military victory. Its purpose is deterrence and evidently has proven to be successful, as we observe in how both the US and Israel have been pushed into a corner.
Iran’s military planners have built a system designed to survive bombardment, absorb leadership losses, stretch wars over time and impose escalating economic and political costs on aggressors.
This reality is frequently absent from public debate because it complicates prevailing narratives of “irrationality and aggression”. It reveals a military doctrine shaped less by ambitions of conquest than by calculations of survival.
The evidence demonstrates that Iran’s strategic focus is not battlefield dominance but endurance.
Iqbal Jassat is an executive member of the Media Review Network, Johannesburg, South Africa.
(The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV)
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/22/770899/architecture-endurance-understanding-iran-defense-doctrine-beyond-western-spinMany eyes see many things-
Enchanted with the ego.
Many “I”s yearn to be kings,
And lead us to where we go.Days Getting Shorter https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/days-getting-shorter
We had a garden and first-birthday party in Yoakum Saturday, with pleasant company, good food and lots of leftover-containers, kids and dogs that all did fine.
Thanks to readers who attended (You know who you are).
We did not figure out what is about to change in our world, but it sure looks big, and looks like it might keep changing for a long time, too.Most of what I read asserts that the US just lost a war with Iran. Some are also shocked indignant that the US “betrayed its major-ally, Israel” a little over a week ago, by declining to expend scarce US air defense missiles against Iranian missiles attacking Israel in retaliation for the ceasefire violation of bombing Lebanese civilians.
I have long wondered how long the US would persist in supporting the “only democracy in the Mideast” and it’s genocides in the quest for “greater Israel” which are directed by their god. There are indications that Gulf monarchies have been negotiating quietly with Iran, and are willing to do business with Iran if the Israeli threat against them might somehow go away, especially if the US won’t threaten them on Israel’s behalf.
New narratives are that Trump is really, really exasperated with Netanyahu this time and threatening to let Israel go-it-alone, while JD Vance says loudly that the US is the dominant-partner and Israel has to follow-orders, which Trump also said recently.
To me it looks as though Israeli politicians are being goaded to be more bellicose, blame Netanyahu for being too soft on Iran and “terrorists”, tell-off Trump and just blow up Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and maybe Turkey on their own. Though I doubt that Netanyahu has been actually alive since early March. This also appears to offer a plausible political off-ramp for his AI stand-in.
We will have to see if Iran can re-enter the broad world of trade without sanctions, helped by the $300 billion investment-fund of Gulf neighbors, from which they apparently all intend to profit together. That does imply the ending of the militarily adversarial relationship between Israel and Iran. Will that leave a national-identity for Israel if it comes to pass? What might such an identity be?Gilbert Doctorow, Yesterday’s front-page editorial in Le Figaro on the Memorandum of Understanding
Note the trenchant realism in their analysis, though the logic of the last sentence is not persuasive. And they avoid stating the obvious: that the Memorandum reflects the relative positions of the signatories as winner (Iran) and loser (USA) in both rounds of this war, in 2025 and 2026...
..Contrary to what he (Trump) tries to make them swallow, the winner of this peace is certainly Iran. Firstly, because the regime comes out alive from its tug-of-war with two nuclear powers, the ‘Big Satan’ and the ‘Little Satan.’ Forgotten are regime change and the promises of aid to the martyred Iranian people. Trump henceforth recognizes the ‘sovereignty’ of the bloody regime of the Revolutionary Guards, on whom he lifts the sanctions. And who hits the jackpot? A 300 billion dollar fund to which must be added the 100 billion of frozen assets and 60 billion dollars of oil revenues per year. Plenty to be used to rearm for the next war! Iran also keeps its hand on the Strait of Hormuz. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/yesterdays-front-page-editorial-in Mary sends an alternative-view from Patrick Wood, Iran: The Goal Was Always Economic Reintegration, Not Containment
Now, the part that should hold the attention of every American watching this, and is being missed by nearly all of them: Jared Kushner is a private citizen. He represents no agency. He took no oath for this work. He is the President’s son-in-law, operating as a civilian proxy, and he runs an investment firm — Affinity Partners — whose capital comes overwhelmingly from Gulf sovereign wealth. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar are the funders of that firm. They are also the states being asked to fund the Iran development fund. The man who designed the mechanism to rebuild Iran is paid by the governments that will pay for the rebuilding.
I am not alleging a crime. I am describing an architecture. The negotiation of a sovereign settlement with Iran was placed in the hands of a private financier whose investors are the very Gulf states whose capital the settlement mobilizes. That is not a conflict of interest in the narrow legal sense. It is the structure itself. Statecraft has been handed to a fund manager, and the fund manager’s clients are the beneficiaries of the statecraft. This is what the privatization of foreign policy looks like when you stop using the polite words for it...
..This is the settlement the American people are mistaking for a surrender. It is not a surrender. It is an acquisition. The men who wrote it were never trying to defeat Iran. They were trying to onboard it — onto the corridors, onto the Accords, onto the architecture that turns the entire region into a single integrated grid administered by private capital and legitimized by normalization. https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/iran-the-goal-was-always-economic?r=na1qg&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: – Trump: “It Really Probably Is Unconditional Surrender”
On Wednesday, June 17 2026, Trump signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran in Versailles. That palace has seen a lot of defeats.
Asked about the MoU he called it an “unconditional surrender”:
Caputo also asked Trump about his original promise that the war would end with an “unconditional surrender” from Tehran, pointing to the memorandum of understanding he signed on Wednesday.
“Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender,” Trump told the outlet. Trump says there are ‘no limits’ to his power – The Hill
But Trump leaves this open: Surrender by whom? His declared war aims and demands for Iran were regime change, no ballistic missiles and no nuclear program. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-trump-it-really-probably-is-unconditional-surrender.html Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: Trump Has To Stop Israel Or Account For A Depression
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was motivated to finalize the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran to prevent “economic catastrophe” if the war was not resolved soon.
“So rather than possibly going into a depression, rather than having your favorite president be Herbert Hoover, he was always the one I didn’t want to be,” Trump said of the 31st president whose policies are often blamed for starting the Great Depression.
“I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened. But all I know is, every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship,” Trump said… https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-trump-has-to-stop-israel-or-account-for-a-depression.htmlIsrael-Hezbollah Agree To Ceasefire After Clashes Stall Opening Round Of US-Iran Nuclear Talks https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-round-us-iran-nuclear-talks-postponed-after-lebanon-clashes-erupt
‘You could’ve been the greatest’: Trump faces Israeli anger over Iran deal
Public outrage in Israel mounts over US-Iran interim agreement, with many feeling betrayed by the Trump administration.
Under the terms of the agreement, negotiated without Israel’s apparent involvement, all fighting, including the offensive launched against Lebanon in early March, was to be concluded immediately. Moreover, both sides were to commit to respecting what the MoU referred to as the “territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon”, of which Israel currently occupies around a fifth. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/20/you-could-have-been-the-greatest-trump-faces-israeli-anger-over-iran-dealIsraelis Are Livid Over Trump Ending War, Overwhelmingly Believe Iran Won: Poll https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israelis-are-livid-over-trump-ending-war-overwhelmingly-believe-iran-won-poll
First Round Of Iran Talks Concludes In Switzerland With Fireworks, Threats Of Renewed War: ‘Be Careful’
Round 1 ends: Vance cites “great progress” and says talks will continue.
Iran defiant, sees itself in strong position: Ghalibaf rejects US threats and links talks to a Lebanon ceasefire.
Trump raises stakes via some typical Truth Social lashing out: Warns on Hormuz, Lebanon, and keeps military options on the table.
Nuclear progress?: Some reports say not addressed, others suggest framework already being worked on. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vance-switzerland-high-stakes-iran-talks-get-underway-what-we-know-so-far Tehran Disputes Vance Claims On Nuclear Inspections & Assets For Agriculture Funding Amid Oil License Deal
Unfreezing Assets divergence in official rhetoric: “It is not true that Iran’s blocked funds will be used to buy grain, and it is not mentioned in any understanding,”
Nuclear Inspector divergence: Vance said Iran agreed to admit nuclear inspectors, but Iranian state media denied any such agreement was reached.
Oil Relief: The U.S. issued a 60-day license allowing Iranian oil production and sales as part of the emerging negotiation framework.
Talks Continue after top negotiators depart Switzerland: Both sides described the Switzerland talks as constructive, with technical negotiations set to continue over the next 60 days.
Hormuz Commitment: The U.S. says Iran agreed to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, easing market concerns, though major issues remain unresolved. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-agrees-invite-nuclear-inspectors-back-vance-hails-great-progress-after-littleTrump Turns on Netanyahu and the Zionists. “Belittles Bibi” – Dispatches JD Vance to face the anger and resentment of the Israel First crowd.
If the corporate media can be believed, the bromance between Trump and the genocidaires in Israel is over.
Following the G7 meeting held in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump belittled Bibi Netanyahu and Israel.
“We are the big partner, and he is the very small partner,” he said. “Israel’s fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed… I say, you can do a little softer touch, Bibi, you don’t have to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it.”
Trump’s flip-flop on Israel is a desperate attempt to reverse the tide rising against the president as the midterms draw closer. Trump’s approval numbers are dismal. “Trump was 21 points underwater in a Fox News poll conducted from June 12 to 15, marking his second-worst performance ever.”
Much of the disapproval stems from Trump’s war for Israel. 65% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s Iran war, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted when Trump said a deal with Iran had been reached.
In order to shift the focus away from himself, Trump sent out his vice president to take the heat from the Zionists and fellow travelers.
“You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,” JD Vance told Ross Douthat of The New York Times.
He also warned Zionist critics to back off.
“My message to people in Bibi’s government who are attacking Trump: Do not attack the only leader in the world who supports you. Your country was built with our money.”
Appearing on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Vance was asked if he trusted Netanyahu and Israel. “I don’t trust anybody,” he replied. “They are the junior partner. We’re the senior partner.”
This remark and others outraged the Zionists even more.
Randy Fine, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Mark Levin, and a host of Zionist others, including Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, have come down hard on Trump for attempting to end the war, or at least giving the impression of ending it. The president may change his mind at any moment… https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-turns-netanyahu-zionists/5930821 ‘Syria and Turkiye represent bigger threat to Israel than Iran’: Israeli minister
Israeli occupation troops have launched hundreds of airstrikes and ground incursions into Syrian territory since the fall of the Assad government https://thecradle.co/articles/syria-and-turkiye-represent-bigger-threat-to-israel-than-iran-israeli-minister#google_vignette Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-21
The big delta: Iran’s IRGC declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again — this time citing Israel’s ceasefire violations in Lebanon, not the nuclear file — while Washington insists it never shut and 55 ships transited. Hezbollah killed an IDF soldier overnight and the Lebanon ceasefire is openly fraying, even as US and Iranian delegations land in Switzerland with a Hezbollah-Israel session bolted onto the agenda. Underneath the Middle East noise: Konstantinovka and Lyman are falling, the AI-cost reckoning is going public, and metals sentiment is in the gutter.
Hormuz: Iran says closed, US says open — and the tape disagrees with both
Iran’s IRGC Navy and joint Khatam al-Anbiya command declared the Strait closed to all vessels, warning approaching ships of “security risk” (MenchOsint, zerohedge, KobeissiLetter, Hedgeye). The stated trigger is Israel’s Lebanon violations, not nuclear — a Hezbollah official says Iran won’t reopen it until Israel publicly commits to a “comprehensive ceasefire” (sewella).
Washington flatly contradicts it: Vance “skeptical,” Pentagon says safe passage “intact,” CENTCOM claims 55 vessels / 17M barrels transited (zerohedge, FirstSquawk, DarioCpx).
The reconciliation: traffic is real but collapsing. Tanker crossings fell from a post-deal peak of 15 (Jun 18) to 3 in 24h, with mines, unreliable GPS and an Iranian insurance/permit requirement throttling transits; Maersk maintains restrictions (M_McDonough). The “open” southern lane is mostly small Indian cargo ships allowed through even during the war https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-21 Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-22
The Iran-US backchannel produced an actual document: a signed 60-day roadmap out of the Lake Lucerne summit, even as Iran theatrically walked out over Trump’s threats and Hormuz stayed shut to everyone but Iranian and Chinese hulls. The two fresh deltas: a major LNG explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan during overnight talks, and oil’s gross short position hitting a record into a supply recovery that physically isn’t happening. Continuation but with real movement: Konstantinovka has effectively fallen, Colombia flipped right, the yen is at a ~40-year low, and Starmer is on the way out...
..Mediators Qatar and Pakistan said “encouraging progress” was made over 18 hours, with a High Level Committee, nuclear/sanctions/monitoring working groups, a Hormuz “communication line” and a Lebanon “de-confliction cell” (BarakRavid; zerohedge). Iran’s FM says oil and petrochemical exports are waived, the blockade lifted, some frozen assets freed…
..Iran’s delegation left the quadrilateral format (not the talks themselves) after Trump threatened to “hit Iran very hard again” over Lebanon and mused about taking Hormuz and collecting “tolls” — telling Iran they “won’t have a country” (zerohedge). They declined the handshake and joint photo with Vance…..Strait of Hormuz still restricted to Iranian/Chinese traffic…
..The diplomatic and rhetorical tracks are moving in opposite directions; the deal reportedly carries a $300bn reconstruction component if it survives the 60 days, with Clause 13 requiring the oil license and asset release before final-agreement talks…
..Iran’s enriched uranium would drop from 60% to 0.7% and Qatar would release $6B…
..The sticking point is Lebanon: Iran says continued Israeli presence voids the deal, and defense minister Katz says Israel won’t withdraw from the south (zerohedge) — then late reports had Trump instructing a partial Israeli withdrawal…
..Qatar Ras Laffan LNG explosion — 54 injured, 18 missing. Blast and fire at the Barzan facility, which QatarEnergy called an “operational incident during the start-up of operations” (qatarenergy; sentdefender). Timing during the talks drew heavy suspicion…
..Oil gross shorts hit a record into a supply recovery that hasn’t arrived. Gross short positions surged to 231k contracts, highest since the pandemic (CommodMkt); managed-money net l
ong Brent collapsed from a 7.5-year high of 496k to 114k (Ole_S_Hansen). With the strait still throttled, that is a short-squeeze setup...
..Mercuria’s shipping head warned that from July there won’t be enough bunker fuel for the global commercial fleet (JustDario); the SPR is “about empty” (Straighthaulin4) and Cushing is reportedly heading below operating minimums…
..China bars 46 US firms, including Lockheed and Raytheon. Retaliation for the Pentagon blacklist, effective immediately…
..Russia-Ukraine: Konstantinovka falls; Crimea fuel war escalates…
..With Konstantinovka and Lyman (flags raised central/south/west, GeromanAT), the path opens to encircle Slovyansk-Kramatorsk (Glenn_Diesen).
Ukraine’s answer is logistics: drones set 5 of 7 oil tanks ablaze at Kerch, hit the Panagia ferry, and forced a suspension of public fuel sales across Crimea — 4 killed, 28 injured (sentdefender; squatsons; MilitarySummary).
Russia counters by targeting Dnipro bridges, gas stations (55 hit in 2026), and destroyed Kharkiv’s TPP-5 with glide bombs; 301 Ukrainian UAVs claimed downed overnight (SU_57R; ZentraleV; MilitarySummary).
The escalation backdrop: the Anchorage agreement is dead, with Moscow’s stated goal now military victory (RWApodcast), and Kremlin advisor Karaganov openly floating nuclear strikes on Europe…
..AI: the capex math goes public, and China keeps shipping
IBM’s Krishna laid out the arithmetic: ~$80bn per gigawatt, ~100GW of commitments = $8 trillion capex needing $800bn of profit just to cover interest (DavidLinthicum). LeCun warns the bubble could burst as users get subsidized by investors (kimmonismus). ZeroHedge: of every $1 on AI tokens, under 20c reaches users and 44c goes to fixing AI-generated bugs (zerohedge).
China is the counter-current: Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 “takes the AI world by storm,” its stock up 15x in six months…
..Trump publicly declared Starmer would resign — before Starmer said so himself. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-22Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns As UK Faces 7th Leader In A Decade https://www.zerohedge.com/political/prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns-uk-faces-7th-leader-decade
Alan Greenspan, Longtime Fed Chair And “Maestro” Of Markets, Dies At 100 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/alan-greenspan-longtime-fed-chairman-and-maestro-markets-dies-100
In Gaza, ‘slaughter continues unabated’ while the world turns away
Israel has escalated its airstrikes across the enclave in recent weeks, burning Palestinians alive as it makes a mockery of the ‘ceasefire.’ https://www.972mag.com/gaza-israeli-airstrikes-ceasefire-slaughter/ Israeli army ‘murdered child’ in Gaza and then dumped body on a roadside
Israeli soldiers shot dead three-year-old Rayan Abu al-Ajeen in central Gaza, then detained his wounded father with the child’s body for hours before dumping them on a roadside. https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-dumping-child-body/ Gaza children running out of time to treat blast-induced hearing loss
Gaza children increasingly developing hearing impairments due to repeated exposure to blasts, with limited access to medical care. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/16/gaza-hearing-loss-running-out-of-timeGaza war’s environmental impact reaching Israel through water and crop contamination, study finds https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/16/365051/
Haaretz Today • The Israeli State Armed Settlers With Thousands of Guns. Now It Can’t Control Them
After October 7, the IDF distributed thousands of guns to settlers and drafted thousands more into territorial defense units. The result has been a dangerous blurring of the line between armed settler vigilantes and the Israeli state – a process integral to the vision of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners https://archive.ph/v1RbK#selection-749.0-759.312 A 92-year-old Palestinian was doused with gasoline during a settler rampage in the occupied West Bank, as rights groups warned of escalating settler attacks. https://www.newarab.com/news/settlers-douse-elderly-palestinian-gasoline-west-bank
Ralph Nader, Fatalities From Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted
Shameful US newspapers, magazines, television, and radio disrespect the Palestinians in both life and death.
In a detailed, footnoted series of reports (“The Truth About Gaza’s Dead”), Feroze Sidhwa, an American trauma surgeon who worked in Gaza’s killing fields, has published much probative evidence by dozens of other health workers who experienced the ghastly horrors. These included the deliberate targeting by Israeli terrorist snipers of little children receiving bullets in their brains and hearts. (See Foreign doctors say Israel systematically targeting Gaza’s children: Report – Al Jazeera, September 14, 2025).
The recent report by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, referred to a consensus of 680,000 deaths. https://www.globalresearch.ca/fatalities-israel-vast-gaza-genocide-undercounted/5930964ISRAELI MEDIA: The Jewish Ku Klux Klan Has a Calculated Plan for the Palestinians, By Amira Hass, reposted from Haaretz https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-blatant-racism-and-cruelty-that-define-israels-settler-movement/
Israel’s former defence minister compares settler ideology to Nazism
Israel’s former defence minister has compared settler ideology to Nazism, and accused authorities of failing to investigate Israelis responsible for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Israeli news site Ynet on Sunday, Moshe Ya’alon said that factions within the religious Zionist movement, which is closely aligned with Israeli settlers, hold a “Jewish supremacy ideology”.
“What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it’s Mein Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us,” said Ya’alon, who served as defence under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between 2013 to 2016.
Ya’alon, who also recently visited Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank amid attacks by the Israeli army and settlers, described what is happening in the territory as a “disgrace for generations”.
“The Israeli government is encouraging Jewish pogromists to dispossess Arabs of their land through abuse, including shooting at them,” Ya’alon told Ynet, adding that more than 20 Palestinians had been killed in those attacks. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-former-defence-minister-compares-settler-ideology-nazismNetanyahu denounces ‘police state’ trial as his cross-examination ends after over a year
PM claims people likened his prosecutors to the ‘Stasi’ as state attorney scrutinizes Netanyahu’s statements to police in Case 2000; defense to question premier in next stage https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-denounces-police-state-trial-as-cross-examination-ends-after-over-a-year/Modern Wars Cannot Be Won Without Kamikaze Drones, Paris Defense Show Makes Clear https://www.zerohedge.com/military/modern-wars-cannot-be-won-without-kamikaze-drones-paris-defense-show-makes-clear
Read just a little… Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/16/somalia-us-trump-war-alshabaab-islamists-drone-airstrikes-civilian-deaths-children
Professor Ugo Bardi looks at profitability over time of new weapons systems, like gravity bombs, nuclear weapons, and now mass-produced drones. We are early in the curve of global drone production and deployment. Drones: Playing Chess With Death – A New Extermination Weapon https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/drones-playing-chess-with-death
Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/poland-revokes-top-award-zelensky-row-over-nazi-symbolism-deepens
A Ukrainian stripper in a wetsuit did it, right? The Nord Stream narrative explosion: Why you’ve only read half the story
The story behind the most destructive act of industrial sabotage in history is still a web of excuses and misdirection
The Nord Stream saga has taken a turn for the absurd, with a new book claiming that the star saboteur who blew up the gas pipelines was a Ukrainian erotic model-turned-deep sea diver...
..‘Freya’ was “the bravest diver in the whole group,” without whose experience diving to depths of 100 meters the operation could not have been pulled off. Another of the divers was sick with Covid-19, but Pancevski nevertheless claims he carried out the kind of dive that has killed experienced military frogmen before…
..The Ukrainians, or so the story goes, went ahead and blew up the pipelines without American permission, using a rented yacht to transport the explosives to the blast sites…
..Built between 2020 and 2022, the Baltic Pipe joins the larger Norway-Netherlands Europipe II in the North Sea. It allows 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to reach Poland every year – less than a tenth of Nord Stream’s capacity, but enough to cover two-thirds of Poland’s total imports in 2024. Poland sells some of this gas on to other EU countries, which after the destruction of Nord Stream were guaranteed to need a new source for the foreseeable future.
With their own supply assured and Russia’s key gas conduit to the EU out of action, the excitement in Warsaw was palpable. “Thank you, USA,” Poland’s now-foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, tweeted. Sikorski deleted his tweet two days later. His jubilation was premature and off message, as the West had collectively decided on a different narrative...
..Over the next week, Ukraine and its Western backers flooded the media with false claims. The editorial board of the Washington Post pointed out that whoever pulled off the attack possessed the “kind of capability usually wielded by a state actor.” It was taken as gospel in the US and Europe that this actor was Russia…
..Russia – which invested billions of dollars in building the pipelines – called the accusations “predictable, stupid, and absurd.”
“It’s obvious to everyone who benefits from it,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said a week after the explosions. “Those who benefit are the ones who have done it,” he added, pinning the blame on “the Anglo-Saxons,” a Russian colloquialism for the US-UK transatlantic alliance...
..Hersh blames the CIA
Over a series of reports, Hersh made the case that the CIA, working with the Norwegian Navy, used NATO military exercises in the Baltic Sea in June 2022 as cover to plant remotely-triggered explosive devices on the Nord Stream lines. Citing a source with “direct knowledge of the operational planning,” Hersh alleged that the order to carry out the operation came directly from US President Joe Biden.
Only the US, Hersh explained, had the means, motive, and opportunity to pull off such an audacious attack...
..The Nord Stream pipelines sat on the seabed at a depth of between 80 and 110 meters. At this depth, divers must breathe hypoxic Trimix gas, carry around 90 kg of equipment, and spend (very roughly) 90 minutes decompressing on the way up for every two minutes spent on the seabed. Furthermore, a single diver or pair of divers would rarely attempt more than one of these dives in a single day, meaning the crew of the yacht – described in one report as “not the vessel anyone would choose” for such a mission – would have had to remain at sea amid active military exercises for days on end.
RT spoke to a scuba diving expert who said it was “not impossible, but highly unlikely” that a small team of divers could pull off such an operation.
Even 50-meter dives can kill the most experienced military divers, but the divers of the US Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center in Florida possess the equipment and the know-how to carry out engineering operations at this depth. The CIA recruited these divers, commandeered a Norwegian mine-hunting vessel, and planted shaped explosive charges on the pipelines in June 2022, Hersh’s source claimed.
The charges were reportedly triggered on September 26 by a sonar buoy dropped from a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane...
..US antipathy toward Nord Stream is a matter of public record, and transcends presidential administrations. Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden have all condemned the pipelines, and urged the EU to abandon Russian gas for American LNG – a pricier fuel that prior to 2022 was a hard sell in Europe.
According to Hersh, Biden planned on blowing up the pipelines long before Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022. As he worked out the logistics with the CIA behind closed doors, he delivered a public threat in early February: in the event of military action by Russia, “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it,” he said...
..First, blowing up Nord Stream satisfied the longtime US goal of forcing the EU into reliance on American LNG imports. Secondly, Germany’s economy before 2022 was dependent on Russia for 55% of its gas supply. By destroying Nord Stream, the US prevented a possible rapprochement between Berlin and Moscow,..
..Planting each charge was an hours-long endeavor, and the presence of military divers wouldn’t go unnoticed, unless they had an excuse to be in the area. NATO’s BALTOPS exercises gave the CIA the cover it needed. Running from June 5 to June 17, the BALTOPS drills involved 14 NATO states, and included US-led experiments with mine-hunting drones and deep-sea communications technology in the Baltic Sea...
..Enter the Germans: Roughly, their story goes as follows: a six-person Ukrainian team rented a 15-meter pleasure yacht – the Andromeda – at the German port of Rostock, sailed through active NATO military exercises, anchored in waters too deep to actually anchor such a craft, spent hours at 80 meters planting timed explosives weighing up to 27 kg each at four different sites, and somehow had time to decompress and leave the scene before sunrise....Two suspects have been arrested for their role in this supposed plot. One was held in Poland until a judge set him free in October, arguing that destroying Nord Stream was a legitimate act of war against an “aggressor,” and not a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure. He will not be extradited to Germany…
..The alleged ringleader of the group, a Ukrainian national named Sergey Kuznetsov, is currently in German custody. However, Ukrainian media claim that the evidence against him is flimsy and won’t support criminal charges. If this is true, then a confession is the only hope that the Germans have of backing up their own conspiracy theory. https://web.archive.org/web/20260619190936/https://www.rt.com/news/632840-nord-stream-ukrainian-narrative/ Andrew Korybko, Why’s Trump Preparing To “Escalate To De-Escalate” With Russia?
From Trump’s perspective, which is an explanation but not an excuse in case anyone misinterprets the following, Putin wasted his time these nearly 18 months by talking about peace but rejecting Trump’s proposal to freeze the conflict in exchange for a resource-centric strategic partnership. Likewise, from Putin’s perspective, Trump reneged on the reported “Spirit of Anchorage” by declining to coerce Zelensky into withdrawing from Donbass in exchange for Putin then declaring a full ceasefire.
Putin accordingly carried on with his special operation, albeit while still eschewing any escalation thereof due to his belief (no matter how outdated some of his supporters think that it’s since become) that Russians and Ukrainians are brothers, which Trump considered to be an insult. It thus wasn’t the Europeans or Ukrainians who convinced him to renege on the reported “Spirit of Anchorage”, but his ego after he felt offended that Putin rejected his abovementioned proposal to his face in Anchorage.
In retrospect, Trump already had his eyes on Venezuela and Iran once again too, which is why he held off on “escalating to de-escalate” till both of those were wrapped up. Meanwhile, he implemented his Neo-Reagan Doctrine of rolling back Russian influence worldwide with a focus on Russia’s entire southern periphery in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, which completed Russia’s strategic encirclement. A “cordon sanitaire” has now been established around the entire country...
..Whether or not Putin will comply remains a matter of debate, but the aforesaid uncertainty doesn’t mean that Trump wasn’t convinced that now is the perfect time to “escalate to de-escalate” upon sensing what he truly believes to be weakness. The risk is that Putin finally abandons his belief in the brotherhood of Russians and Ukrainians to reciprocally escalate, possibly even going as far as limited conventional strikes against NATO members to call what he might believe is the big bluff about Article 5.
Unless Russia either capitulates to the US’ demands or there’s a diplomatic breakthrough whereby a balance of interests is reached through a series of mutual compromises, the first of which is improbable while the latter is possible even if unlikely, then a major escalation in NATO-Russian tensions is expected. https://korybko.substack.com/p/whys-trump-preparing-to-escalate Russia’s complicated dynamics of political-economy in wartime: John Helmer. CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ELVIRA NABIULLINA DECLARES SHE RULES RUSSIA, WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT KREMLIN WARFIGHTING STRATEGY https://johnhelmer.net/central-bank-governor-elvira-nabiullina-declares-she-rules-russia-will-continue-to-fight-kremlin-warfighting-strategy/#more-94463
Gilbert Doctorow, Is Russia losing the war?
Major media such as The Financial Times and Le Figaro have in recent days provided extensive coverage on the status of the Russia-Ukraine war, presenting strong arguments for our reconsidering who in fact is winning and who is losing.
As these media point out with reference to Ukrainian monitors reporting gains and losses of territory, the Russian spring offensive this year has produced dismal results, capturing in May something like 130 square kilometers of Ukrainian held Donbas, whereas a year earlier the Russian advance was 10 times greater. The explanation they offer is the progressively more impactful and destructive Ukrainian drones which are raining down on the battlefield and make large troop formations impossible.
I note that the Russian state news remains entirely silent on these reports. They are not challenged, meaning they are likely correct.
I offer a possible alternative explanation of the paltry territorial conquest this May: since last October, the Russian armed forces have concentrated not on advances in open fields but on capturing the major defensive city of Konstantinovka, which is the path through which they must pass to take the last fortified towns in Donetsk, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk...
..Drone warfare is a great leveler. A force of 10,000 to 20,000 drone operators is all that Ukraine needs to hold its own against the half million Russian soldiers deployed in the Special Military Operation...
..I will wager that the breakthrough in the Ukrainian cause on the ground is being provided by the United Kingdom and other NATO countries shipping their latest drones to Ukraine in quantity.
This presents the Russian leadership with a stark question: is it prepared to use its unstoppable hypersonic missiles to destroy the drone factories in England, France, Denmark, Sweden, etc? I maintain that the risk of escalation to all-out Russia-NATO war resulting from such attacks would be nil. Europe is utterly unprepared to go into full scale direct war with Russia today. It is not clear that it will be ready in two or three years. There is, consequently, a window of opportunity for Russia to take charge and change the security landscape in Europe here and now while also bombing and destroying the Zelensky junta in Kiev.
Will President Putin rise from his timid, now self-destructive strategy of non-response to the growing threats to Russian national security? Or will he be overthrown in a palace coup? https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/is-russia-losing-the-warTesting:
Russian Oil Refinery Over 1,200 Miles From Ukraine Attacked In Another War First https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-oil-refinery-over-1200-miles-ukraine-attacked-another-war-first
Zelensky threatens to attack Belarus
The Ukrainian leader has demanded that Minsk remove its air defense radars from the border within a week, vowing to destroy them otherwise https://web.archive.org/web/20260620094541/https://www.rt.com/russia/641890-zelensky-issue-ultimatum-belarus/ Lukashenko warns of ‘war provocation’ after Ukrainian drone attack – A UAV struck a bus in Russia carrying a Belarussian school team, killing one person https://web.archive.org/web/20260619140430/https://www.rt.com/russia/641772-lukashenko-bryansk-drone-stike/
Andrew Korybko details another chance for Putin to remove the gloves: Zelensky’s Ultimatum To Lukashenko Gives Putin The Chance To Finally Restore Deterrence
Russia can’t allow US-backed Ukraine to attack Belarus with impunity otherwise it risks losing its closest ally, whether to destruction or Lukashenko’s “defection” to the West, either scenario of which would shift the strategic balance of power in the Ukrainian Conflict to Russia’s supreme disadvantage.
Zelensky gave Lukashenko one week to remove air defenses and drone relay transmitters along their joint border otherwise Ukraine will do it for him. This comes amidst their growing tensions that have been boiling since spring after Zelensky implied that Ukraine could capture Lukashenko like the US captured Maduro on the pretext of preempting a supposedly imminent Belarusian invasion of Ukraine...
..Over the past two years, Ukraine invaded Russia’s Kursk Region, conducted “Operation Spiderweb” against its nuclear triad, tried assassinating Putin at his residence in Valdai, began carrying out long-range drone strikes against St. Petersburg (which many speculate transit through Baltic airspace) and recently Moscow too, and Trump is now preparing to “escalate to de-escalate” after sensing even more “weakness” than ever from Putin. This has sparked a harsh reaction from top Russian thought leaders.
Top hawk Sergey Karaganov still insists on a first strike against Europe, first with conventional weapons and then with nukes if they retaliate, for restoring deterrence even though Putin declared in early June that such talk “is not simply nonsense; it is a provocation.” Meanwhile, former top Russian spy Andrey Bezrukov warned that the West is trying to “boil the frog”, with one of their goals being to neutralize its nuclear forces. He called for Russia to stop being so “nice” to its foes and finally enforce its “red lines”.
Zelensky’s ultimatum to Lukashenko gives Putin the chance to finally restore deterrence. Belarus is Russia’s mutual defense ally and they both participate in the Union State project. Moreover, Russia also has hypersonic Oreshnik missiles and tactical nukes in Belarus, which were deployed precisely for deterrence purposes. As Putin himself declared in September 2024, “We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus as a member of the Union State.”…
..Russia can’t allow US-backed Ukraine to attack Belarus with impunity otherwise it risks losing its closest ally, whether to destruction or Lukashenko’s “defection” to the West, either scenario of which would shift the strategic balance of power in the Ukrainian Conflict to Russia’s supreme disadvantage. Putin must therefore finally restore deterrence or risk the worst-case endgame scenario in this proxy war. https://korybko.substack.com/p/zelenskys-ultimatum-to-lukashenkoBritain bought the keys to Ukraine’s nuclear future – what’s next?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to finance the supply of enriched uranium for Ukrainian nuclear power plants over the next two years has nothing to do with commerce. Through this deal, London de facto gains access to the most sensitive sector of the Ukrainian state.
In a country where nuclear energy accounts for more than half of all power generation, control over nuclear reactors means direct control over industry, logistics, communications, and the viability of cities, especially in winter. https://web.archive.org/web/20260619062449/https://www.rt.com/russia/641742-britain-bought-keys-to-ukraine/Last week: Russian Warship Fires Warning Shots in the English Channel
The Russian military says the frigate fired after a British yacht ignored warnings, an incident that came days after British Royal Marines seized a Russia-linked tanker https://news.antiwar.com/2026/06/16/russian-warship-fires-warning-shots-in-the-english-channel/ Orwellian Nightmare: UK Confirmed to have “A Secretive Thought Police”. Towards a Totalitarian Government
In a typically bureaucratic manner, the secretive police unit engaged in sanctioning these “thought crimes” is called the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU). It has come under the spotlight in recent days and weeks after a string of crimes across the UK, with the government responding not to the actual crimes, but to those calling for the perpetrators to be held accountable. RICU has been caught advising police to portray everyone protesting the rise in crime as “raging racists”.
Worse yet, police are now arresting “the worst offenders” (i.e., regular people who voiced their concerns online or in public). Any criticism of the British government and its decades-long failed migration policies is presented as “right-wing extremism”.
The brutal crackdown on protesters comes amid protests after a migrant attacked Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast.
Ogilvie is a man with special needs who was nearly decapitated by an immigrant. The incident was caught on video and sparked outrage across Northern Ireland and Britain. However, instead of dealing with violence perpetrated by anyone, regardless of their background, police specifically target the so-called “right-wingers” (i.e., regular people sick and tired of escalating violence). Apparently, this now also includes schoolboys under the age of 10, with videos showing multiple officers restraining a child protesting the arrest of his father. https://www.globalresearch.ca/orwellian-nightmare-uk-confirmed-to-have-a-secretive-thought-police-towards-a-totalitarian-government/5930431Read a bit: Britain’s Greatest Betrayal: The Rape Gang Inquiry Report https://www.zerohedge.com/political/britains-greatest-betrayal-rape-gang-inquiry-report
‘Two-Tier’ Britain: White Jobseekers Locked Out Of Employment Schemes https://www.zerohedge.com/political/two-tier-britain-white-jobseekers-locked-out-employment-schemes
Trump – v – Meloni
On the heels of the G7 in France, U.S. President Trump and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni have been engaged in a geopolitical spat.
The core of the issue centers on Italy’s refusal to allow the U.S. military to conduct flight operations for the conflict against Iran from U.S. airbases in Italy. President Trump, Vice-President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary Hegseth have all remarked on their disappointment with Italy and Spain that has led to a full review of U.S. NATO operations in Europe. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/20/trump-v-meloni/#more-284583 “It’s That Bad”: Virginia Residents Battling Constant Noise From Data Center Generators
For more than a year, residents living next to the Vantage Data Centers facility have endured what they describe as a constant, high-pitched whining or ringing sound coming from the site’s massive backup generators – the facility’s only source of electricity. Unlike most data centers connected to the power grid, this facility runs entirely on its own on-site power plant. What residents were told would be temporary generator testing has become permanent operation... Neighbor Hari Doue told News Nation, “We were told in the beginning that they test the generators to make sure they’re working in case of an emergency. And then as the year and the months have gone on, they’re just never turned off.” …
..Vantage Data Centers officials told NewsNation they continue to monitor noise levels and do not believe the sound exceeds Loudoun County’s limits – which is 55 decibels in Residential and rural areas and 60 decibels in Mixed-use residential areas. Exceptions include generators operating during emergencies, at utility request, or during testing. https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/its-bad-virginia-residents-battling-constant-noise-data-center-generators This is bound to drain the Pecos Vally Aquifer: Chevron Lands 20-Year Deal To Power Microsoft’s AI Expansion
Microsoft has signed a 20-year agreement with Chevron to power a massive new AI-focused data center campus in West Texas, underscoring the growing race among tech companies to secure reliable energy supplies, according to Bloomberg. The project, known as Project Kilby, is expected to begin generating power in 2028 and eventually reach 2.67 gigawatts—enough electricity for more than 530,000 Texas homes.
Bloomberg writes that the site near Pecos, Texas, will use natural gas from the Permian Basin to fuel GE Vernova turbines and generate electricity directly for Microsoft’s planned data center campus. Because the facility will produce its own power, it will not draw from the grid.
“Consumers are concerned about and are already feeling the effect of power-demand growth,” said Jeff Gustavson, Chevron’s president of New Energies. “We specifically designed this, in this part of the country, to avoid any of that.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chevron-lands-20-year-deal-power-microsofts-ai-expansion Nadella’s Hedge: Microsoft Wants To Make AI Models Cheap – Then Own The Rails They Run On
Nadella believes intelligence is about to become abundant, interchangeable, and cheap, as a wave of agents routes work to the lowest bidder. And as the cost per unit of intelligence plummets, he wants Microsoft to own the rails it runs on. https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/nadellas-hedge-microsoft-wants-make-ai-models-cheap-then-own-rails-they-runAre iPhones Dialing Up The Birth Dearth?
Written by Caitlin K. Myers and Ezekiel Hooper and issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the title of the working paper says it all: “Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly.”
The study’s methodology is straightforward, as are its implications for our nation. As succinctly explained by Ms. Winland: “The paper draws on a natural experiment created by Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&T. When the iPhone launched in June 2007, it was available only on AT&T’s network until February 2011, giving researchers a way to compare areas with different levels of early iPhone access.” …
..The diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women. Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44. National-survey evidence on time use and sexual behavior is consistent with the iPhone reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use, and reducing sexual frequency.
Importantly, Myers and Hooper are not asserting that the iPhone is the sole cause of the steep decline in America’s birth rate, which they cite as having dropped by 22 percent since 2007. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/are-iphones-dialing-birth-dearth Peter Thiel’s Secret Society Leak Creates A Perfect Target List For Espionage, Influence Operations, And Blackmail
Dialog, a private invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, has spent two decades refusing to disclose its membership...
..The roster is not a list of adjacent power. It’s power in direct regulatory relationship with itself. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears alongside Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, who founded location-data broker SafeGraph and identity-resolution firm LiveRamp. Senator Ted Cruz, who chairs the committee overseeing the FTC and its data-privacy authority, is listed in the same directory. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for ICE and data fusion for the Pentagon, appears alongside Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
Forbes confirmed additional members including investor Marc Andreessen and investor and former Facebook board member Jim Breyer.
General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe and head of US European Command, is recorded as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021.
The session agenda for the 2026 retreat includes “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” and “Build-a-Cult,” the last moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com. There’s also “How’s Your Sex Life?” which presumably has a different moderator. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/peter-thiels-secret-society-leak-creates-perfect-target-list-espionage-influence15 forgotten skills every 1950s boy mastered before 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1b14oXP_tw
Medical care is a public-good, like schools, roads, railroads, electricity, water, wastewater and gas, right? Alex Krainer, Is healthcare a human right?
Candace Owens returned from Russia with a profoundly thought-provoking experience, literally signifying the difference between life and death.
..To attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Her entourage included a security team, among whom was a U.S. military veteran, a former Navy SEAL with about 12 years of service (Mr. SEAL).
As it happened, shortly after their arrival in Moscow, this man had a medical emergency: a stroke-like event, which caused him to collapse with severe seizures. Paramedics and hospital staff reacted quickly and among other things performed a CT scan that revealed a massive blood clot in his brain. An emergency surgery was arranged to remove the clot.
According to Candace Owens, Mr. SEAL had significant health issues related to this clot including frequent headaches, hearing loss, seizures and coughing up blood. Even though these issues were related to his military service, he was unable to obtain proper treatment from the US Veterans Administration where he was told his problems were all in his head (they kind of were), related to PTSD. Instead of a CT scan and proper treatment, they prescribed him Xanax and told him to go away.
In Russia, he was treated immediately and according to Owens, his symptoms, including headaches, hearing issues, and blood coughing cleared up significantly or went away overnight. After his surgery he received physical therapy, ongoing care and further diagnostic tests. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/is-healthcare-a-human-right Sunscreen removes your cancer immune system, Michael Walsh
Commonly available sunscreen products enter your bloodstream in under 24 hours. The FDA confirmed this in 2019. Yet, they didn’t pull a product. They told you to keep applying the toxin.
In January 2020, a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA found that six active sunscreen chemicals, including oxybenzone and avobenzone, absorb into the bloodstream after a single application. Not after years. After one use. At concentrations exceeding the FDA’s own safety threshold by 180x to 500 x.
The FDA did not recall them. They issued a statement: ‘Continue to use sunscreen.’
Oxybenzone is a confirmed endocrine disruptor. It mimics estrogen. It crosses the placental barrier. It has been found in 97% of Americans tested.
The toxin is in breast milk. It is in amniotic fluid. It is in your children before they are born.
A former formulation chemist, 11 years at a top-3 sunscreen manufacturer:
‘We had internal absorption data by 2014. Full transdermal penetration within 26 minutes of application. The compounds don’t sit on the skin. They were never designed to. The delivery mechanism is identical to a pharmaceutical patch. We knew this. The mitigation strategy was never reformulation; it was public messaging. Keep the consumer applying.
The margins on chemical sunscreens are 1,400% above production cost. Mineral alternatives cost 4x more to produce. The decision was financial. Every internal document confirmed that.’
They told you the sun causes cancer. What they didn’t tell you: Vitamin D, produced only through direct sun exposure, is the single most critical regulator of immune surveillance against malignant cells.
A 2023 meta-analysis confirmed: Vitamin D deficiency correlates with a 30-60% increased risk of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers. https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/06/16/sunscreen-removes-your-cancer-immune-system/Gabbard Drops Fauci COVID-19 Receipts On Last Day: He Funded The Research, Cooked The Cover Story, Then Lied To Congress https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/gabbard-drops-fauci-covid-19-receipts-last-day-he-funded-research-cooked-cover-story-then
Biden administration buried whistleblower complaint alleging Fauci lied to Congress during pandemic
Memos released by Tulsi Gabbard also reveal CIA, Fauci new workers at Wuhan lab were sickened before pandemic but pushed natural origins narrative over lab leak evidence. https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/biden-administration-buried-whistleblower-complaint-alleging-fauci CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period
Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a ”laboratory” to ”neutral”, a newly released document confirms. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cia-official-confirms-agency-flip-flopped-over-covid-19-origins-over-five-day-periodAaron Siri, The Targeted Assassination of Studies Showing Vaccines Cause Injury – Since they can’t win on the merits, they’ve resorted to other tactics https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-targeted-assassination-of-studies
Jessica Rose Ph.D. on politicized-science: Retraction of SIDS paper based on VAERS analysis 5 years post publication
Claims of serious methodological flaws in the use of VAERS data to infer a correlation between vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) https://jessicar.substack.com/p/retraction-of-sids-paper-based-on Steve Kirsch, CDC just gave Pfizer $1.24 Billion in contracts for more doses of the COVID vaccine despite their own Medicare evidence that it makes people more likely to die from COVID
Baffling. The US Medicare data showed the COVID vaccines increased the COVID case fatality rate in the very population that it should have helped. What does the CDC do? Order more of course! https://kirschsubstack.com/p/cdc-just-gave-pfizer-124-billion BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 Vaccination During Early Pregnancy Linked to Major Birth Defects
Babies born to mothers vaccinated during the first trimester suffered higher rates of atrioventricular septal defects (holes in the heart) and cleft palate. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-covid-19-vaccination-fd6 Steve Kirsch, Even Grok admits no US pediatrician has observed that vaccinated kids are healthier than unvaccinated kids
All scientific studies that have been published in the peer-reviewed literature say unvaccinated kids are healthier. The anecdotal data is 100% aligned with that conclusion. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/even-grok-admits-no-us-pediatrician A Midwestern Doctor, The Forgotten Tragedy of Neurological Vaccine Injuries
Neurological injuries from vaccination have been documented since the smallpox vaccine over two centuries ago, with severe injuries reported throughout medical literature.
The medical profession concealed these injuries, believing public vaccination benefits justified hiding information that might create vaccine hesitancy.
Historical injuries like spreading paralysis mirror current “one in a million” vaccine injuries, but toxicity documentation was erased to preserve the “safe and effective” narrative.
In the past, these injuries were widely reported, but now research into them is widely censored.
Many of these forgotten reports are critical for understanding modern “inexplicable” conditions like Autism. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-forgotten-tragedy-of-neurological-9bc Doctors Can’t Explain How This Paralyzed Teen Started Walking Again – Erica Drum was told her son Jackson would never breathe on his own again.
A hockey hit launched him headfirst into the boards. Broken neck & spine. Doctors said he’d be paralyzed for life.
Jackson is now walking and has recovered every fine motor skill he lost.
What happened? His loving mother took a chance on a substance called DMSO. https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/doctors-cant-explain-how-this-paralyzed A Midwestern Doctor, How DMSO Heals The Nerves & Eliminates Pain
Why a single agent, through its forgotten biophysical effects, can reverse an improbable range of “incurable” neurological conditions.
DMSO is an “umbrella remedy” whose combination of therapeutic properties (improving circulation, reducing inflammation, protecting cells, and reviving dying ones) makes it uniquely suited to treat a variety of conditions, particularly “incurable” neurological disorders and the chronic pain that accompanies them.
Through its actions on water, DMSO temporarily shifts the phase of cell membranes and cytoskeletons, after which they reform in a strengthened configuration, facilitating DMSO’s prized ability to transport substances across biological barriers without damaging them and creating a cellular reset that can resolve dysfunctional circuits giving rise to a variety of neurological disorders.
DMSO selectively blocks the small nerve fibers responsible for chronic pain transmission while not affecting larger fibers, safely eliminating pain other medications cannot reduce. Hundreds of readers have reported it transforming chronic neuropathic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, and nerve damage from diabetes, chemotherapy, vaccines, and surgery, often after years of failed conventional treatments.
DMSO promotes peripheral nerve regeneration and addresses the root causes of pain through multiple converging mechanisms, with readers reporting return of sensation and motor function in nerves damaged for years or even decades.
DMSO has been extensively used in clinical practice for peripheral neuropathies, with Level 1 evidence for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and demonstrated benefit for facial nerve palsy, trigeminal neuralgia, post-herpetic neuralgia, compression neuropathies, diabetic neuropathy, and fibromyalgia, while its unique interactions with the opioid system suggest broader implications for the chronic pain crisis.
This article summarizes the extensive data demonstrating DMSO’s efficacy for peripheral neurological conditions (approximately 600 studies and 400 pertinent reader testimonials), and concludes with practical guidance on DMSO protocols and the most potent DMSO pain formulation.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-heals-nerves-and-eliminatesDr. Mercola, How Krill Oil Eases Osteoarthritis Pain and Boosts Muscle Strength in Older Adults https://www.globalresearch.ca/krill-oil-eases-osteoarthritis-pain-boosts-muscle-strength/5930909
Catherine Ebeling, Dr. Stephanie Haridopolis: the Federal Council That investigates Parkinson’s Spike Must Treat the Disease as Preventable
Dr. Haridopolos says 13% of Parkinson’s is genetic, suggesting environmental triggers for 87%. She and others will examine Parkinson’s causes starting June 29. https://www.themahareport.com/p/whats-driving-the-spike-in-parkinsonsCalifornia farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/california-farmers-must-destroy-420-202332529.html
Physicist, Anastassia Makarieva, co-originator of the Biotic Pump Model, Persistence, Complexity, and Power – Three pillars of the rational case for preserving wilderness https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/persistence-complexity-and-power
Ben Davidson at SpaceWeatherNews(SO) has an updated model of crustal overriding during projected planetary rotational axis shift (2:16 min video)
Pole Shift: Vertical Motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_OxfGGffFYWhat will Israel decide to do about peace with neighbors?
It will consult with the following AI.Israel is using a network of AI systems — not just one program — to identify, classify, track, and schedule targets in Gaza and other theaters. The core systems repeatedly confirmed across multiple independent investigations are Lavender, Gospel (Habsora), Where’s Daddy?, and Fire Factory. Additional tools such as Alchemist and The Death of Wisdom are also referenced in reporting.
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